Why should I support India?
The team isn't representing the nation, but a private trust worth several thousand crores of rupees, argues Jayaditya Gupta writing for Live Mint
19-Feb-2015
The team isn't representing the nation, but a private trust worth several thousand crores of rupees, argues Jayaditya Gupta writing for Live Mint.
The question on my mind has always been this: How does one square the near-virulent antipathy towards the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) with support--even adulation or idolatry--for the team that wears its logo? This is not India, this is the BCCI's team. The BCCI today, in India and in the eyes of the cricketing world, is a discredited organization, whose various administrative decisions over the past five-odd years are the subject of judicial and governmental scrutiny. It is rotten at the top; so rotten in fact that the top exists at the mercy of the Supreme Court. Am I am supposed to place my unflinching, unquestioning loyalty in the team and system it controls so tightly?